YELPS
Noun
yelps
plural of yelp
Verb
yelps
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yelp
Anagrams
• -lepsy, Pyles, slype
Source: Wiktionary
YELP
Yelp, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Yelped; p. pr. & vb. n. Yelping.] Etym:
[OE. yelpen, , to boast, boast noisily, AS. gielpan, gilpan, gylpan;
akin to OHG. gelph arrogant: cf. Icel. gjalpa to yelp. Cf. Yap.]
1. To boast. [Obs.]
I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe. Chaucer.
2. To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with
eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.
A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel
of French curs Shak.
At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the
door with a yelping precipitation. W. Irving.
Yelp, n.
Definition: A sharp, quick cry; a bark. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition